List of Famous people born in January

Wilhelm "Willi" Kuhweide is a retired West German sailor. He competed in one-person dinghy at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and 1963, 1966 and 1967 world championships and won on all occasions except in 1968. He then changed to two-person and three person keelboat events and won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics, placing sixth-eighth in 1976 and 1984; he missed the 1980 Moscow Games due to their boycott by West Germany.

Reinhard Hans Bütikofer is a German politician who has been member of the European Parliament since 2009. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party. From 8 December 2002 till 16 November 2008 he was party leader, together with Claudia Roth. In November 2012 Bütikofer was chosen co-spokesperson for the European Green Party.

David Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Federico Martin Molinari is an Argentine male artistic gymnast and part of the national team. He participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.

Ron Jones is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California. He is internationally known for the adaptation of his The Third Wave classroom exercise, which inspired the made-for-TV movie The Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in 2008. The original TV movie won the Emmy and Peabody Awards. His books The Acorn People and B-Ball have also been made into TV dramas. Jones lives in San Francisco, California where he regularly performs as a storyteller.

Luis Felipe Bonatto Francischini is a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He has spent his political career representing Paraná, having served as state representative in the lower house of the national legislature since 2019 and the state legislature from 2011 to 2019.

Heni Ozi Cukier is a political scientist, consultant and public speaker. He's a faculty member for the International Relations Program at the ESPM college in São Paulo. He also founded the international political risk analysis consultancy Insight Geopolítico. From 2017 to 2018 he was Deputy Secretary of Urban Security of the city of São Paulo. In 2018 he was elected state legislator for the New Party in the State of São Paulo.

Steed Claude Malbranque is a Belgian born French footballer.

Anly is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter from Ie, Okinawa. She started playing the guitar at six years old, and started writing music in junior high school. In high school, she played live at various locations in Okinawa and Tokyo, allowing her to release two indie singles in 2015 before being signed to Sony Music Records. She released her debut single "Taiyō ni Warae" in 2015 and her debut album Anly One in 2017.

Anastasia Yuryevna Grebenkina is a former competitive ice dancer. She is best known for her partnership with Vazgen Azrojan with whom she represented Armenia at the 2006 Winter Olympics and won the bronze medal at the 2005 NHK Trophy.